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BookwormMama14 (18 KP) rated Santa's Sleigh Is on Its Way to Michigan: A Christmas Adventure in Books

Jan 2, 2019

The children of Michigan prepare for Santa's arrival, but he can't make his appearance until they are all in bed and fast asleep!

"The icicles sparkle as snowflakes drift down from Midland to Ann Arbor, and all around."

Although we are not from Michigan, my Grandma lives there. We received this book from her this week and think it's a marvelous idea! Even though we are not familiar with the area, it will be fun for our kids to research the cities as they get older. The illustrations are splendid and the story is very well written. This will be a good encouragement for kids to go to sleep on Christmas Eve. This is a cute and personalized story that will add magic to your Christmas collection.

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David McK (3649 KP) rated Halloween Rain / Bad Bargain / Afterimage in Books

Jan 30, 2019

An omnibus collection of 3 Buffy stories, set at different times during the course of the TV series. Having said that, in all 3 of these stories, Buffy is still at Sunnydale High ...

The first of these has by far the earliest setting, with mention of The Master (the villain in the very first series): I think this was written sometime during series 2. The second novel includes Spike and Drusilla and Jenny Calendar, while the third has mention of The Magic Box but is before that had a larger role in the series.

None of the three stories were that great or were that well written, unfortunatley: I got the distinct impression they were aimed at American teenagers more than anything else!

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Mo (66 KP) rated Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in Apps

Jun 21, 2019

Experience the magic world (2 more)

Lots of great references to the stories

Augmented reality

Poorly implemented (2 more)

low immersion for an AR game

Highly buggy app

I looked forward to it but it did not live up to my hopes

I loved the idea of Wizards unite, since I heard of it more than a year ago, unfortunately this does not live up to what it was suggested to be. The story is poorly constructed, the app constantly struggles with interactions. The items you encounter are negligible most of the time and not worth collecting.
Seeing ingress and pokemon go from Niantic I hope this would be at least a passable harry potter experience, unfortunately it has made me free less special than I did before I got it.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Rampage (2018) in Movies

Jan 20, 2019 (Updated Jan 20, 2019)

Rampage (2018)

2018 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.4

(116 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Riotously silly computer game adaptation, as magic DNA jollop falls out of the sky and turns animals into giant, aggressive monsters; one of them happens to be genial Dwayne Johnson's pet gorilla, so there's bound to be trouble.

One of those films where everyone is in on the joke - doesn't bear much resemblance to the original game, but works pretty well as a piece of nonsense anyway. Johnson is a reassuring presence in the middle of it all, and the film does a surprisingly good job of catching some of the essence of the classic Japanese monster movies which obviously inspired it. Probably not going to win any of the major Oscars but still good fun while it's in front of you.